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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...

The Change

...whenever we smoked and did not smoke for pleasure and I  was content and free. Then they came and changed things and you left me for a fancy white girl...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...

The Black Belt

...United States. During the "flush times," Black Belt commerce on the Alabama, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers transformed towns such as Montgomery, Selma, Demopolis, and Tuscaloosa and boosted the Gulf...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...are biographies that also challenge the conventional trajectories of the “migrant.” In “Greece to Norfolk,” the exhibition tells of Demetrios Karkambasis (renamed James Campas) who comes to the United States...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...they haunt bronze water cannons, bronze children washed in sodium light. They rake the teeth of cut-steel pinschers, praying change from their metal tongues. One lies beneath a swayback boy...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...and construction, Collier Heights represents more than a hallmark of change. The neighborhood became a sanctuary where black Atlantans claimed a space of their own. As I return to the...